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InfoSAWIT, EMPAT LAWANG - PT Galempa Sejahtera Bersama (GSB), the subsidiary of PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya, Tbk., in Empat Lawang, South Sumatera Selatan did trainings to prevent fire in the forests and areas in cooperation with Tim Manggala Agni South Sumatera in Lahat on 14 - 15 March 2023.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – After the meeting between Minister of Enterprises and Commission VI Indonesian Legislators, Monday (20/3/2023), the government targeted, government’s palm oil plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) III would get initial public offering (IPO) for the company would use brand - PalmCo, and would be operating in the fourth quarter of 2023.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) price at Malaysia Exchange got much more expensive on Tuesday (21/3/2023), after the previous three sessions it got cheaper. The better CPO price happened for the increasing soyoil price at Chicago and the better export data.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The government keeps encouraging solutions to prevail food crisis potential that would happen in many countries. One commodity which is potential to be the significant solution to be considered is palm oil which is also vegetable or edible oil.

InfoSAWIT, PALEMBANG – According to Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) Team of South Sumatera Province in the second period – March 2023, decided on Monday (20/3/2023) it is decided that the 10 – 20 year old FFB is getting better Rp 89,62/Kg to be Rp 2.678,78/Kg. The next meeting would be on Monday (10/4/2023).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Crude palm oil (CPO) tender at PT. Kharisma Pemasaran Bersama Nusantara (KPBN) got cheaper to be Rp 12.525/kg on Monday (20/3/2023). It means it decreased Rp 215/kg compared to Friday (17/3/2023) tender which was Rp 12.740/kg.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) together with the private sectors in Indonesia and Malaysia would donate 102.000 superior palm oil seeds as the response of smallholders’ misery in Honduras to help them in solving the impacts from Eta and Iota storm that destroyed the country on 20 November 2020. Palm oil seed helps would be the simple contribution for CPOPC members to facilitate smallholders’ plantation production in Honduras.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) and 7 (seven) superior palm oil seed producers from Indonesia and one superior palm oil seed producer from Malaysia donated 102.000 sprouts, as the way to relieve the smallholders’ misery in Honduras for the Eta and Iota storm that happened in 20 November 2020.

InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – Until now Bursa Malaysia Derivatif (BMD) still plays significant roles to promote sustainable, responsible practice among stakeholders and palm oil derivative products.

InfoSAWIT, KUCHING – Analyst team of Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd (HLIB Research) thought that crude palm oil (CPO) stock could be decreasing in this very short.

InfoSAWIT, KUCHING – Some analysts believed that palm oil production until the fourth quarter 2022 was various in numbers because it was wet until February 2023.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Gusman and Sudirman confessed that they still have had areas in palm oil plantations of PT Agro Nusa Abadi (ANA) which is the subsidiary of PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk., in North Morowali, Central Sulawesi Province. The case was once discussed in a press conference by Yansen Kundimang SH., their lawyer. “They are unchivalrous. The area case was taken to the court and sentenced by the Supreme Court,” the lawyer of PT ANA, Davi Aulia Ghifari SH, said as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Saturday (18/3/2023).

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Prior Forest and Plantation Campaign Manager of Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (Walhi), Uli Arta Siagian said that some companies in other countries stopped purchasing palm oil from Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) because of the report of Walhi, and United States’ Friends of the Earth (FoE) in March 2022 which documented how three subsidiaries of the company did violation.

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Until now Indonesia is still the biggest palm oil producer in the world. It dominates vegetable oil needs in the globe.

InfoSAWIT, KAMPAR – Chairman of Commissioner Board of Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), Mahendra Siregar confirmed that OJK would keep encouraging the increasing financing by industry jasa keuangan (IJK) for the smallholders or farmers’ groups namely in palm oil plantation sectors within easy and innovative schemes to escalate quality and palm oil product price. He told that when meeting many smallholders in District of Kampar, Riau Province, Friday (17/3/3023).

InfoSAWIT, PONTIANAK – To deliver the right education about palm oil cultivation based on good agricultural practices (GAP), Indonesian Planters Society (IPS) did Talkshow Planters in Pontianak, West Kalimantan Province, Saturday (18/3/2023).

InfoSAWIT, PONTIANAK – Until now, Indonesian Planters Society (IPS) has become one organization for plantation communities both the workers and independent planters to have meaningful interaction that covers palm oil, rubber, tea, chocolate, coffee, sugarcane, medicine and aromatic plantations, including researchers, communities which are in affiliation with planters’ activities. IPS itself was established on 7 January 2018.

InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – Lawyers of PT Agro Nusa Abadi (ANA) was sorry for unchivalrous attitude in area claim. “What some parties told about in many forums was not right that PT ANA is illegal,” Davi Aulia Ghifari SH, the lawyer of PT ANA and also the Chairman of Lembaga Bantuan Hukum (LBH) Keadilan Rakyat, said.

InfoSAWIT, BALI - Spa Factory chose contract manufacturing as service business by producing cleansing and personal care products by order. There are three clients in Spa Factory Bali, they are, hotel aminities (to guarantee comfort) such as, Hotel Bulgaries, JW Marriot, and others; the second, griya (house) spa – in general, it is in the form of bulk; the third is for personal care products – mostly sold in retail based on certain brands.

InfoSAWIT, MAKASSAR - General Director of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Andi Nur Alam Syah said that his side is improving the old, broken, unproductive trees by replanting or rehabilitating those, such as, in palm oil sector by conducting smallholders replanting program.